It is rumoured that Professor Porta has sent a message to Mr. Lloyd George, wishing him a Happy New World.
Mr. Justice Rowlatt has decided that photography is not a profession. With some actresses, of course, it is just a disease.
The gentleman who drew 1920 in a fifty-pound sweepstake as the date of the ex-Kaiser's trial is now prepared to sell his chance for sixpence-halfpenny.
"He is not a politician," says Mr. R. Harcourt in The Times, referring to Sir Auckland Geddes. It will be interesting to see how Sir Auckland accepts this compliment.
A letter posted at Hull for Odessa in July, 1914, has just been returned to the sender. The postal authorities are thought to take the view that the sender should be given an opportunity of adding a few seasonable observations to his previous remarks.